The President of India is elected by an electoral college, comprising the Members of both the Houses of Parliament as well as the MLAs of all state Assemblies. The total number of members in the Electoral College for the Presidential elections in 2007 is 4896 (233 Rajya Sabha MPs + 543 Lok Sabha MPs + 4,120 State MLAs). However, unlike any other election, the value of votes of the voters are different here. While the value of votes of each MP is the same, the strength of a vote of an MLA is determined by way of proportional representation. The MPs, too, have a specific value for each vote that is determined by dividing the total value of votes of all the states by the total number of elected members of Parliament (Lok Sabha 543 + Rajya Sabha 233). The total value of votes of all members of each State Assembly is worked out by multiplying the number of elective seats in the Assembly by the number of votes for each member. For instance, in case of Andhra Pradesh, since the total population (1971 Census) is 43,502,708 and the total number of elective seats in the Assembly 294, the number of votes for each member would be 43,502,708/1000 x 294 = 147.96 or 148. This means the value of each Andhra MLA's vote is 148. Now multiplying that number with the number of elective seats can give the value of total votes for the all members of the House: 294x148 = 43,512. The Constitution (Eighty-fourth) Amendment Act, 2001 provides that until the relevant population figures for the first census to be taken after the year 2026 have been published, the population of the states for the purposes of calculation of the value of votes for the Presidential Election shall mean the population as ascertained at the 1971-census
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Three ULFA cadres have been killed in an encounter with army in Tihu in Nalbari district on Friday night. According to information, the incident took place at Khetrapara Ghairajan under Tinhu police station when army’s Kumaon regiment with the help of police launched an operation in the area resulting in the heavy exchange of firing. Three ULFA cadres died on the spot and they have yet to be identified.Later police found a carbine, six rounds of bullets, one 9 mm pistol with five rounds of cartidge, a grenade, six detonators and some gunpowder from the spot. Investigation is on.
Atleast ten people were killed, more than 40 others have been injured in the communal clash that broke out between Bodos and Bangladeshi immigrants at Rowta in lower Assam’s Udalguri areas. Security forces have been deployed in the area but by the evening the situation has already spanned out of control.The flare-up broke out on Friday morning and by the evening it was spreading to the adjacent areas Ikarabari, Sonepur, Lalding, Shivpur, Shyambari and Bothaipara under the Rowta Police station forcing thousands of people in the area to leave their house. As many as ten villages have been torched belonging to both the communities. According to information, these people are camping in...
One person was killed more than twenty five others have been injured and three villages have been torched in a fresh string of communal violence that rocked lower Assam’s Udalguri district on Friday.According to information, the communal clash broke out in Mohanpur area inhibited by Muslim and Bodo people in the morning and later it is spreading to the adjacent areas forcing to step in. Police resorted to firing the disperse the mob but by then the situation was spanning out of control.Muslim people in large number came out openly against the Bodos and the Bodos are also in a retaliation mood. The houses reduced to ashes belonging to the people of both the communities.The condition of...
Veteran freedom fighter Powal Barua will attend the 'Guest of the Month' programme of Guwahati Press Club tomorrow (2nd October). During the program, staring at 12 noon in the GPC auditorium, Barua, 85, will interact with the member-journalists. The GPC members are requested to attend the same.
Altogether 305 rebels of the United Liberation Front of Barak Valley laid down their arms before the authority in Assam at function organized in the city on Tuesday.Led by their President Pancharam Apeto, the rebels surrendered before Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, who welcomed the move and asked ULFA to follow the suit.The rebels received a bunch of rose each when they laid down their arms and ammunition including three AK-47 rifles and .22 rifles, one m-16 rifle, dbbl gun, .32 pistol and .22 pistol, four .303 rifles, 60 twelve-bore guns, seven 9mm pistols, two 2-inch launchers, four each of single shot revolvers and grenades and two mortars.They further submitted 158 AK-series ammunition,...
The human rights violation cases in Assam has even reached international scene when the state’s lawyer and human rights activist and PCG spokesman Arup Borbora was participating the recent conference of the Human rights Commission under the United Nations.Addressing a press conference in the city on Tuesday, Borbora said 40 countries who participated in the conference organized by a London based organisation Libertion, expressed solidarity with the human rights violation cases in south east Asian counties more specifically in Assam.Borbora said while interacting in the the September 16 conference presided over by Interpret International chairman Dr Charles Gery, he raised the...
A suspected ULFA rebel died at a joint operation by police and Army in upper Assam's Sivasagar district on Tuesday morning. According to information, acting on a specific information, Army's 318 Field Regiment jawans and Charaideo police launched the operation at Rangalibatuwa area under Kakotibari police station in the district at around 3 in the morning. The rebel who died on the spot has yet to be identified. Police recovered a 9mm pistol, a magazine, three rounds of live ammunition, four electric detonators, some explosive materials and PEF sticks. Details are awaited.
At least 300 rebels belonging to the United Liberation Front of Barak Valley will surrender at a function in Guwahati a short while from now.According to information, these rebels will also deposit thier arms and ammunitions before the authority a the function being organised at the Machkhowa ITA Centre.
“There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with terrorism. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it.”– Tony Blair (Former PM of Britain)“Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight (terrorism). We’re Americans. We’ll never surrender.” – John McCain (US Senator)The burning of coach no. S-6...
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani makes a clarion call for the people of Assam to favour his party to help the state bail out of the problems confronting the state for decades.Addressing a mammoth gathering at the Sonaram Field on Sunday, the BJP veteran said Assam is plagued by two main problems. One he said is the Bangladeshi infiltrators who has been posing a serious threat to the nation’s integrity. “This has already disturbed the region’s demographic set up,” said Advani. For the former deputy prime minister, the next is the flood waves that remain a perennial problem. Over the years, the UPA government in Delhi has been failing to deliver the...
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